looked down at her again, an eyebrow raised. “I figure it’s pretty likely you will get the job. Don’t worry about Joan; she’s like that in all the interviews. In the two years I’ve been here, though, you’re the only candidate everyone in the team has voted for. Well, not Lily, I guess, but I bet she would have, if she’d been around.”
Now it was Lex’s turn to look up at Casey, puzzled. “Really? Why do you think everyone voted me in?”
“The only vote I figured you wouldn’t get was Joan’s because she’s always been sort of law-and-order. But I think some of the things you said got her liking how your mind works. Riss, well, I knew she’d vote for you after your little speech.”
“Oh, that,” Lex said, feeling a blush on her cheeks as she remembered her long response to Riss’ question. “Well, I figured after a while that it was probably better just to go with radical honesty, but maybe I went a little overboard with that answer…”
Casey held up a protesting hand. “I didn’t have a problem with anything you said, I just said I thought Joan might have. But I was pretty sure Riss would eat it up. Just a hunch, really, but when you get on the team, you may want to ask her how she got involved with us. No one else has been able to get the story out of her. As far as Serena’s questions, well…” Here, Casey broke off into laughter.
“I figured she wouldn’t vote for me, since I protested them,” Lex admitted.
“Are you kidding? Most of the people we’ve interviewed wouldn’t answer any of her questions! A couple folks answered one or two, but you’re the only one who answered all five.”
“What do you mean, ‘all five’?”
“As current team members, we’re allowed to ask any questions we want of candidates. However, five questions are all that are technically allowed for anything not specifically related to the position. I think you may have answered more than that, though,” Casey responded, with a bit of a smirk.
Lex shook her head and tried not to blush again. “What can I say? I’ve had some friends in my time that have asked me wilder questions than that. I guess you just get used to it after a while.”
“So,” Lex continued after a few seconds, turning her face to look in Casey’s direction, “what’s this ‘trial’ thing all of you kept talking about?”
Grinning back at her, Casey replied, “Well, you’ll find out more about this when you get the job, but all of us on the team are able to do things most people can’t. That’s what the trial is about—testing your abilities.”
Lex digested that bit of news and decided not to pursue it further at the moment. Instead, she asked, “Are you adding a bunch of people to the team? It sounds like you have lots of candidates.”
“We’re only adding one person, from what I’ve heard,” Casey replied. “It seems like it takes running through a lot of interviews to find someone good, though.” Casey elbowed Lex then and they both started laughing. Surprisingly, Lex started to feel herself relaxing and even feeling a little happy while talking to the taller woman.
“Hey,” Lex began, still looking at Casey, “when you said you’d already made up your mind about me, it almost sounded like you’d decided before the question and answer thing. Why did you vote for me?”
Casey cocked her head to the side for a moment, as if considering. “Well, I liked our initial conversation. You didn’t try to get me to tell you any secrets, you just asked my opinion. Also, when we met I just got a good feeling about you.”
Lex smiled, looking straight ahead at the sidewalk, but glanced back up at Casey for a second. “Same here.”
They continued to walk quietly for a while amongst the spray-painted warehouses with broken and boarded-up windows. Lex smiled to see the colors of the clouds, now glowing bright gold, pink, and purple.
After a while, Casey turned towards Lex. “So, did you grow up poor?
Now it was Lex’s turn to look up at Casey, puzzled. “Really? Why do you think everyone voted me in?”
“The only vote I figured you wouldn’t get was Joan’s because she’s always been sort of law-and-order. But I think some of the things you said got her liking how your mind works. Riss, well, I knew she’d vote for you after your little speech.”
“Oh, that,” Lex said, feeling a blush on her cheeks as she remembered her long response to Riss’ question. “Well, I figured after a while that it was probably better just to go with radical honesty, but maybe I went a little overboard with that answer…”
Casey held up a protesting hand. “I didn’t have a problem with anything you said, I just said I thought Joan might have. But I was pretty sure Riss would eat it up. Just a hunch, really, but when you get on the team, you may want to ask her how she got involved with us. No one else has been able to get the story out of her. As far as Serena’s questions, well…” Here, Casey broke off into laughter.
“I figured she wouldn’t vote for me, since I protested them,” Lex admitted.
“Are you kidding? Most of the people we’ve interviewed wouldn’t answer any of her questions! A couple folks answered one or two, but you’re the only one who answered all five.”
“What do you mean, ‘all five’?”
“As current team members, we’re allowed to ask any questions we want of candidates. However, five questions are all that are technically allowed for anything not specifically related to the position. I think you may have answered more than that, though,” Casey responded, with a bit of a smirk.
Lex shook her head and tried not to blush again. “What can I say? I’ve had some friends in my time that have asked me wilder questions than that. I guess you just get used to it after a while.”
“So,” Lex continued after a few seconds, turning her face to look in Casey’s direction, “what’s this ‘trial’ thing all of you kept talking about?”
Grinning back at her, Casey replied, “Well, you’ll find out more about this when you get the job, but all of us on the team are able to do things most people can’t. That’s what the trial is about—testing your abilities.”
Lex digested that bit of news and decided not to pursue it further at the moment. Instead, she asked, “Are you adding a bunch of people to the team? It sounds like you have lots of candidates.”
“We’re only adding one person, from what I’ve heard,” Casey replied. “It seems like it takes running through a lot of interviews to find someone good, though.” Casey elbowed Lex then and they both started laughing. Surprisingly, Lex started to feel herself relaxing and even feeling a little happy while talking to the taller woman.
“Hey,” Lex began, still looking at Casey, “when you said you’d already made up your mind about me, it almost sounded like you’d decided before the question and answer thing. Why did you vote for me?”
Casey cocked her head to the side for a moment, as if considering. “Well, I liked our initial conversation. You didn’t try to get me to tell you any secrets, you just asked my opinion. Also, when we met I just got a good feeling about you.”
Lex smiled, looking straight ahead at the sidewalk, but glanced back up at Casey for a second. “Same here.”
They continued to walk quietly for a while amongst the spray-painted warehouses with broken and boarded-up windows. Lex smiled to see the colors of the clouds, now glowing bright gold, pink, and purple.
After a while, Casey turned towards Lex. “So, did you grow up poor?
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